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That doesn't seem to apply at all. Coursera programs aren't for training their own employees, nor the employees of other businesses.

Sounds to me like he chose to ignore the ad hominems and focus on the complaints for which there is a factual definitive answer.

Saying Obama "needs" to raise $1B was probably wrong, but the predictions I've heard are that he will raise $1B.

But what is the outcome? In what way does this undo the damage? They submitted a letter of support, and I presume money, to Congress. A post on their web page does not take back any of that.

What's a better use of my time -- converting my 1000+ machines to another distro (which may turn out to be worse) or convincing Fedora not to make a stupid decision?

With bash putting a command in <() uses the output of the command as though it were a file. I use it to diff the output of two commands: diff <(command 1) <(command 2)

I've never used it, but I assume >() uses a command as though it were a writable file. So instead of history -a file writing to file, he does history -a >(logger) to write to the logger command. Seems pretty clever to me.

Anybody able to get the videos to play on Android? I see they have HTML5 video, and my phone tries to play it, but it fails.